ILM Classic or Dud?

"Congrats on your success Scott."

marc masters was the person who started it. but he wisely took himself out of the game so that he could get some work done.

i'm not on there a ton anymore. i keep an eye out for rule-breaking posts. but there are some nice folks on there. i reconnected with an old philly digger friend of mine who i haven't seen in forever.

this is the record btw if any of you come across it in the wild pls sell it to me

https://www.popsike.com/pix/20150614/161734513242.jpg

its still fun for jaw-dropping owen maercks and andy zax posts too.

They spawned offline meet-ups

an ILx crew made me drink malort in Chicago in 2010.
i should have killed my account there and then.

hey chaki, yeah that's the one. found it at Amoeba for a buck, i guess it's worth a decent amount. it's got a lot of larry and darryl and darryl content.

i've met dozens and dozens of ilxors irl and they are always super nice. pussycats!

i've met dozens and dozens of ilxors irl and they are always super nice. pussycats!

the folks were wonderful people.
its the fact they made me drink malort that i will never forgive.

fair

Scott ‘s NP FB group is geared to vinyl. I mostly just lurk

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, May 29, 2018 4:53 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Not really...I mean, there might be slightly more vinyl posts, but there's not much "THIS IS A HOT STAMPER, WIDER SOUNDSTAGE THAN ON THE 1974 PRESSING" kind of talk. Hell, someone just posted all 70+ discs of a Miles Davis box (and I posted all my Cecil Taylor recordings, only one of which was vinyl).

Scott's NP FB group sounds great - I'd love to check it out, but damn if I'll ever join FB. I love that ILM is around as a board still b/c too many folks want to point music discussion/music promotion/etc. to FB.

Nick b if you’re talking to me that’s lame man.

I’m not a monster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uL1Ll6lRoM

Lol!!!!! It’s

There was no noticable change in the number of new user registrations as a result of Tom's article, btw.

why would there be

I mean, he painted it as a stultifying backwater only inhabited by an insular circle of ppl who can't move on with their lives

ooh, new board description

Tom OTM obv

we have polls now too

Nick b if you’re talking to me that’s lame man.

No ross, I wasn’t talking to you, it was just an xp to myself

Cheers thanks man sorry for that

en there are the RYM discussion boards, which are fucking abysmal

― imago, Tuesday, May 29, 2018 1:51 PM (two days ago)

I beg to differ

haha, that person a) decided Cardiacs are the best band (yay!) and then b) invited every vocal Cardiacs fan on RYM into a chatroom they are never away from (D:)

of course ILX with its flawless track record of dealing with hyperenthusiastic trans people would be far better equipped to handle such a thread

did you join?

it seems like at any give time there's one poster on the rym forum who starts 10 threads a day, turns the forum into their personal blog, and announces some outrageous project like reviewing every album released in the '90s, only to mysteriously deactivate their account several months later, leaving a void that's quickly filled by a new poster with a near-identical persona. it's like it's an elected office or something.

in ilx's (slight) defense, I don't think anyone here passively-aggressively misgenders trans posters or rants about SJW's white knighting CRJ. there's a not insignificant alt-right presence on that board even though the most egregious offenses are usually shot down pretty quickly

I joined...briefly

tbf while there's some anti-trans on RYM there are also a LOT of trans users

at any give time there's one poster on the rym forum who starts 10 threads a day, turns the forum into their personal blog

nobody on here like that

oh, of course not ;)

aware I've collected myself with that one

It has its moments of being classic and/or dud, but right now it's slap bang in the middle of the dud category.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PivWY9wn5ps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMm4b47pXBA

needs more pavement discussion imo

Dud, no-one ever mentions the Dan or the Mac

the day a fetus marked ILM's homework.

The trouble is, we're not purely a Parquet Courts fansite yet

fucking hate Wimbledon!

yeah, they keep fucking beating us!

And as the usual suspects come out of the woodwork, I rest my case.

The trouble is, we're not purely a Parquet Courts fansite yet

They're growing on me tbh

Get curious, not furious.

Turrican, what's missing for you these days? I still find bits and bobs worth chiming in about though not as much as in the past.

Yes, where is ILM going right?

Turrican, what's missing for you these days? I still find bits and bobs worth chiming in about though not as much as in the past.

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, July 13, 2018 1:23 PM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is it in a nutshell, basically. I've found that a lot of (most of?) the posters I enjoy reading the most are no longer posting as frequently or have stopped posting entirely. There's still a couple of decent folks about (and it's great to see you posting - it's been a while) but ILM these days is such a drag to read. Activity has slowed down and I'm not taken with the level of conversation of most of the current regulars.

exit is thataway

"The way out is through the door/ how come nobody uses it?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySjN5vzc4lE

sounds like we need a new Beatles megathread :-p

exit is thataway

― imago, Friday, July 13, 2018 2:00 PM (thirty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You're part of the problem, tbh.

go on

As for quitting? Nah. That's too extreme, and I'm not a drama queen. Besides, if ILM keeps up its current form, it'll naturally fizzle out anyway.

LOL. If there was Giger counter that measured irony, background irony, residual irony, it would have disintegrated by now.

(xp) Listen, if it can survive you...